Colleen Atwood
Colleen Atwood
Colleen Atwood is an American costume designer...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDesigner
CountryUnited States of America
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I've been lucky in the things I've got to work on. I've been able to keep it fresh, always getting to do different kinds of things.
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Sometimes a contemporary film like Silence of the Lambs is difficult. To make it look real but interesting is always a challenge.
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I worked in fashion, but I worked more in the sales side of fashion than in design. I was an assistant buyer for a department store back in the '70s and the early years of Saint Laurent. And I used to have a lot of private clients that I bought for.
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I grew up in a small town in Washington State, so I wasn't really aware of costume design as a career growing up, but I loved clothes. I remember I saved all my money, and the first thing that I bought was a white blazer, which was to the horror to my parents. But I have always had a strange connection with clothing.
both designing detail goes leather
I have always loved beautiful leather objects, especially the detail that goes into designing them both inside and out.
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While researching design, I was inspired globally, from Peru to Turkey to Africa to Japan-from the 5th century through to today.
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For contemporary fashion, I'm a huge fan of so many of the people out there. I think Azzedine Alaia holds up through three generations of very specific, beautiful design. I think Jean Paul Gaultier also is very interesting with a long span.
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I don't design my own clothes. It's so not what I think about.
design floating lasts
I always have a moment when I know I'm designing the last costume that gets made for a movie and it's always been floating up there but it's kind of the last one. That's always probably the hardest one for me.
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In designing Supergirl, I wanted to embrace the past but more importantly, thrust her into the street-style action hero of today,
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The exposure I have had to beautiful materials across the world, from Japan to Italy, enables me to pull design ideas together. This, combined with years of historical research, has created a great fountain of ideas for me.
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It's often said that costume designers are a faceless group of people. But we can contribute to fashion in a way that might be new and different.
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I love designing costumes that I can actually construct, working to create an environment that people want to be in.
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Some of the kimonos took as long as four to five months to make, with all the layers that go into it.